Earlier this week leaders of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations gathered at a summit with the United States government in Palm Springs, California, to discuss a variety of political and economic issues.
U.S. President Barack Obama and the other government officials were also joined by a trio of CEOs to talk about economic growth.
“Our business leaders really provided an enormous color and specificity to the ASEAN leaders about how they could achieve their objectives to expand their entrepreneurial culture,” Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, said. “And that is really commercial diplomacy at work.”
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